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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19
WAKE COUNTY CATTLE SHOW.

The display of blooded cattle made
by the Wake County Cattle Club on
on the 18th inst. was superb, and was
in every way worthy the efforts of the
publicspirited gentlemen who COM
pose the club. The display was an
honor to Wake county.
We regret that We have not the
space to notice individually the splen-
did animals on exhibition, and men
ton each by name. jerseys, Hol-
stems, Guernseys and Short Horns,
with the Jerseys largely predominant
ing, made up the collection. Several
single herds, were we'll worth spend.
ing a day to see.
Mr.. w. G. Upchurch had on ex-
hibition eleven COWS and one bull !;
Mrs VIM. Grimes, fifteen Jerseys
Capt. B. P. Williamson, seven Jerseys;
DR.. VIM. Hawkins, four Holsteins and
one Jersey Maj. R. S. Tucker, even
Jerseys Mr.. G. M. Hawkins, two
Jerseys ; DER. II. Lewis, four Guern-
seys, n Jersey /; T. II. Murray, five
Holsteins, one Jersey N. w. West,
one Jersey COW with twin calves !;
Maj. J. w. Crenshaw, five Jerseys !;
Capt. A. B. Andrews two Jerseys !;
D.. S. Hudgings, one Holstein, two
Jerseys DR.. J. Mckee, five Jerseys
G. 81. Belvin, two, Jerseys R. B.
Rainey, two Holsteins, one Jersey /;
Capt. j. B. Burwen, two short horns
and three Guernseys and quite mum
Der Of others of excellence and merit.
Eleven hundred dollars would buy
a snug little farm in many counties,
but Mr.. w. G.. Upchurch refused that
sum for Rosa Stella, an imported Jer-
sey four years old, and which gives
So IL pounds of rich milk per day.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19
WHY THEY DID IT.

On the morning of the 9Th inst. the
body of a negro, Ben Hart, who on
the 26th Of April last, near Tarboro,
Edgecombe county, assaulted a little
girl, and was arrested and confined
for safe keeping in the Jail at Will
mington, was found hanging near the
scene of his crime. Aparty Of lynch,
ers secured a,.train, quietly went to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19

execution. Inventive genius has given
us machinery which has multiplied
productive power SO that one man now
is the equivalent Of scores of men a
decade or two ago. And inventive
genius has not been idle on the farm.
1t has given us machines to do about
everything that is to be done upon the
farm from turning the soil to thresh-
ing the grain. It has given us the
sulky pillow upon which the farmer sits
and rides at his ease while he plows
his land, instead of trudging along
YEARLY between the handles of the
plow. 1t has given us the sulky cul-
tivator constructed upon the same
principle upon which the driver rides.
It has given us the mower upon which
the farmer sits while his waving fields
of grass fall before the swiftly moving
scythe, and the self-binder which cuts
and binds the ripened grain and lays
it aside ready for the stacker. With
all of these the work of many hands
is speedily and effectually done by a
few. It is thus that marvellous pro-
ducts of the grain-growing west have
become a possibility; machinery takes
the place of men, and the acreage and
product are multiplied. With a cou-
pie Of teams, equipped with this ma
ehinery the western farmer will cult
vate a hundred acres or more in wheat,
oats, corn, grass, potatoes, &C., keep
a considerable number Of cattle, and
hogs, and have reasonable time for
rest and recreation too. But he
couldn't do it if he had to contend
with an army of resisting stumps.
These make the effective use of ma
chinery an impossibility and effectual-
ly block the path of progress.
If the removal of them was a labo-
rious or costly undertaking that might
be a reason why they are permitted to
remain. But it is not. They may be
easily removed with explosive agencies,
burned out with oil. dug out or pulled
out with machinery devised for that
purpose, and sold at a price that any
ordinary farmer, with stumpy fields
can afford to pay, and which could be
purchased at an insignificant sum to
each if several farmers having such
fields were to club together and buy
m in common; or a man of me-
chanical turn of mind could easily
contrive an apparatus which with the
use of a couple of oxen or horse or
mules would answer the purpose very
well. The time and the money spent
in graduating these costly nuisances
will be both we'll invested and even
work done upon the farm for the time
taken and money spent will pay the
farmer better.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19
THE AGRICULTURAL AND ME-
\L/ CHANICAL COLLEGE.

The Fayetteville Observer presents
some excellent views on industrial
training and our Industrial College.
1t says: \
alt will cost no little money to
equip the college witb/all the applian-
ces necessary for /experiments. 1t
should be put upon a permanent and
satisfactory basis. Don't\ do things
by halves, and thus bring censure
and %disrepute upon the Institution.
The need has long been felt for a more
thorough education in mechanic arts,
and our advantages have been exceed
ingly limited. Northern men are far
ahead of us in invention and other
matters because they have had the
opportunity to develop their natural
gifts, which are not by any means
superior to ours. We have had no
machine shops in which to educate our
boys, and the want has long been felt.
Now, if this institution is furnished,
not only with books, but with appar-
atus, both theoretical and practical in
formation may be acquired. Hereto
fore nearly all of our educated men
have chosen professions, and our
farming interests have not advanced
in a ratio proportionate to the lntenl-
gence of the age.
It has been the opinion that almost
any man could farm, but it is one Oh
the ~fallacies of the times. We all see
each others faults and can give advice,
but the remedy for most of the faults
will be found in thorough agricultural
training. Here the farmers boy can
learn to do all sorts of work-blacK-
smithing, repairing and building ma,
chinery, carpentering, etc. He VIII
also be able to test the soil, to find us
needs and what is necessary for the
plants he grows-in fact, receive a
thorough training that will revolu-
tionize in a measure the present syS-
tenn, for his mental faculties Will 0e
developed in the right direction. Inc
Importance of such a school for tno
training of our young men is not 10
disputed"
The cotton crop in sight is G, 19e, l9s
bales. "e@
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19

there is not only one such agent but
there are thousands upon thousands
of them. But few of them, however,
have discovered as he did the fact that
they are "only agents." or have his
candor to acknowledge it,
How few of these agents lave, live
in the true sense of the word, (not
merely subsist) as men, especially
farmers, should live. How few Of
them have the ordinary comforts of
life much less the luxuries. They
struggle on, toll on from early dawn
till late at eve, wearing themselves
out, growing prematurely old, or drop
ping into premature graves, broken
down in body and in spirit in pursuit
Of that exacting, tyrannical naiscalled
money crop" There are thousands
upon thousands of graves in North
Carolina, the graves of farmers, where
this epitaph might be appropriately
inscribed.
"Run to death by tobacco" or cot
ton. Suicides, who killed themselves
without suspecting that they were do
ing it.
We have seen plantations containing
hundreds of acres of good land, whose
owners seemed to live and live only to
raise cotton or tobacco. They bought
their stock, the feed for the stock,
they bought their meat, their bread
and sometimes ever the vegetables
they ate. Grass was an unknown
quantity on these farms, cows as scarce
as white elephants, milk a novelty and
butter if found, probably imported
from some Northern oleomargarine
factory. Fresh meat of any kind sell
dom broke the tri-daily monotony Of
fried bacon, and western bacon at that.
Grass, COWS, milk, butter, home-ralsed
bread and meat were in the estimation
Of these infatuated followers of the
M crop delusion small matters with
which they could not afford to waste
the precious time which that one crop
relentlessly demanded and submissive
" got. No man who would do him
self, his wife and children justice
would or should victimize himself and
them thus. He should not enslave
himself nor them, in the vain effort
to grow rich in an impossible way.
Even if he could it would be better to
arm fewer dollars and to have some
Of the comforts of life if he did not
aspire to the luxuries, to cheer his
daily toll.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19
PLEASE NOTICE.

In writing to this Office to change the
address of a paper, our subscribers will do
us a favor by stating the Office at which
the paper is received, as we'll as the one
to which it is desired to be sent. Failure
to do this puts us to a great deal of trouble
and the necessity of going through a long
list of names, involving not only much
work, but much loss Of time, when time
is valuable.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19
49,

~ We ask every Grange and Farm
ers' Club in the State to send us at once,
the number of members in the ~organiza-
ton, together with the name and post
Office address of each officer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19
N. c., MAY 19, 1887.
ENDORSED BY THE CONVEN-
TON.

The following resolution was passed by
the Farmers Mass Convention in Raleigh,
January 26th, 1887:
Resolyed, That The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, pub
Iished by l.. L. Polk, Winston. n. c., be declared
the Official Organ of the North Carolina Farmers
Association, and that its Editor, L. L. Polk. be adj
mitted to the privileges of the floor as an honorary
member of this Convention.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-19

The cotton crop in sight is 6, 1896 l9'
bales. "t@
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

part of the whole, it is like it, hence we
may reason from the nature of the parts
to what is the nature of the whole. In
inductive reasoning, analogy occupies
prominent place, and theology, homo
logy and morphology enter as impor-
tant rational elements.
"There is in man a universal faith in
the general constancy of nature. This
is partly instructive, partly the result of
experience, and partly the conclusions
of reasoning. This confidence is the
practical basis Of all inductive logic.
Here again science is grounded in faith.
"The results of the application of in
ductive logic to the solution of the prob
lens presented in the phenomena Of
nature have been grand and sublime.
Modern science is the outcome of the
use of the inductive method in the study
ofnature. We thus have in the nature,
constitution, faculties and wants of
man, and in their relation to the exter-
nal universe, the philosophical and log
ical foundation of all science.n
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
THE ExTIRPATIoN OF CRIMINALS.

The first step, therefore, in the extir-
patton of criminals is to shut up on an
indeterminate sentence all those who,
by second offence, place themselves
in the criminal class. We shall GER
tainly come to this, and when we do
society will be free of vast mass of
criminals, who will be where they earn
their living, where they can no longer
prey upon society, where they cannot
corrupt the innocent, where they can
not increase their kind in the world,
and where they will have the only
chance possible to them for reform.
How shall they be treated? Kindly,
humanely, of course, but not in any
way pampered. The first requisite is
their security. Society has a right to
demand that they should be secure, and,
secondly, that they shall not have an
easier lot as criminals than honest men
have outside the prisons. Rigid disci-
pine is essential discipline is the first
requisite in any attempt for the i'm
provement of the condition of men,
physically, morally, or Intellectually.
In any education, in the learning of
any trade, it is the first requisite; it is
emphatically so for boys and men dis
torted morally, Intellectually, and phys
ically. Hard labor is also essential
NetU Princeton Reriep.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
SELF IN PHILANTHROPY.

The definition of mystic given by
Coleridge, although meant to apply to
mysticism in religion, does, in fact, ap-
ply also to mysticism in humanitarian
and philanthropic efforts, which are a
religious duty:
When man refers to inward feelings
and experiences of which mankind at
large are not conscious, as evidences
of the truth of any opinion, such man
l call mystic; and the grounding of
any theory or belief on accidents and
anomalies of individual sensations or
fancies, and the use of peculiar terms
invented, or perverted from their Or
binary Specifications, for the purpose of
expressing these idiosyncrasies and pre-
tended facts of inner consciousness, 1
name mysticism. Where the error
consists simply in the mystic's attach
ing to these anomalies of his individual
temperament the character of reality,
and in receiving them as permanent
truths, having subsistence in the di-
vine mind, though revealed to himself
alone; but entertains this persuasion
without demanding or expecting the
same faith in his neighbors,- II should
regard it as species of enthusiasm, al
ways, indeed, to be deprecated, but yet
capable of co-existing with many ex-
cellent qualities both of head and heart.
But when the mystic, by ambition or
still meaner passions, or las sometimes
is the case) by an uneasy and self doubt
ing state of mind which seeks confirm
alton in outward sympathy, is led to
impose his faith, as duty, ON mankind
generally; and when with such views
he asserts that the same experiences
would be vouchsafed, the same truth
revealed, to every man, but for his Sc
cret wickedness and unholy will;-such
a mystic is a fanatic, and in certain
states of the public mind, dangerous
member of society.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
DEMANDS OF JUSTICE.

l. Justice does not demand pain for
the sake Of pain. 1t always looks be-
yond this, and aims at something else.
Pain or punishment is an agent en-
ployed with view to correct what is
wrong; to expel the evil, as medicine is
used to expel the disease.
2. Justice does not demand a fixed
measure of pain for all wrong or sin,
which must be suffered by some one
either the guilty or substitute indif-
ferent which, SO long as it is suffered,
solong as so much punishment follows
so much sin.
8. Justice does not demand that the
sinner must suffer just as much wrong
as he has nficted-because two wrongs
do not make one right. II you burn
my house, it will not rebuild it to burn
yours. The thing justice requires is,
that my house should be rebuilt, and
placed where 1 was before you fired it,
compensated by you for all my loss and
inconvenience. Burning your house
and subjecting you to the same loss and
discomfort, will not do the least thing
toward it. If 1 am angry and revenge
full toward you, it may crafty my re-
venge to see you paid in the same coin;
but it will not be justice, which de-
mands that all wrong shall be made
right, and that your feelings toward
me shall be so changed as to secure me
from repetition of the wrong-Reu.
DR.. I. B. 1hoyer.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

Mime. Boucicaut, of the Bon Marche,
Paris, has given her employees, outright,
a pension fund of over $1,OOO,OOO. This
fund is available to all who have been in
her service twenty years, provided the
men are at least fifty and the women forty
five years old, and not among the share
holders of the establishment. Nine. Bou-
cicaut has in addition paid the fee which
the State charges on legacies, amounting
to nearly $4,000.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
The Wniuersalist Sermon Paoe.
r EV. L. L. BRIG S +.
Brockton. Mass
THE MINISTRY OF DEATH

SERMON preached
L.
vreprnted fomth
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

General Lew Wallace intends de-
voting his entire time to literature in the
future. His method of work is to shape
his plans, lay his plots, conceive his char
acters in his mind while walking in the
gardens of his Indiana home, which is in
a wooded estate, wild and romantic. He
has about half finished the manuscript
of his new novel, the scene of which is
laid in Constantinople, and the publishers
promise it in March next. It is said to
contain battle scene which is to rival the
description OF the famous chariot race in
A" Ben Hur."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

There are some delightful Incidents
told by Du Chaillu, the famous French
traveller, concerning the honesty of peo-
pie in Sweden and Norway. At one time
he left his gold watch and chain under
the pillow at house where he had slep
the night before. The man who found
travelled on snow shoes for an hour to re-
store the property, and positively refused
to be rewarded. At another time Du
Chaillu dropped a gold locket, when dis
playing some curiosities, and did not miss
it at the time. A servant brought it to
him some time afterward. "Why didn't
you keep it?" he asked playfully. GLOW,
then," she answered, could ever walk
erect and look people in the face?"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

Frank O. Haddock, son of Rev.
George @. Haddock, the martyr to tenn
perance, is writing a life of his father
which will soon make its appearance.
Young Haddock is a lawyer, and is said
to have already attained some literary
reputation. 1t is also announced that
the young lawyer is to become a minis
ter and settle in Iowa.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

The New Orleans Picdyune pays
this tribute to the late General Logan:
"Sober in an age of drunkards, laborious
in an age OF superfciality, honest in an
age of corruption, gallant in an age of
unsoldierly characteristics, and infexible
in an age Of moral cowardice, he was a
man made to grow greater with his years,
and could scarcely have fallen short of
the presidency had he lived the century
out"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.

Even in the most insignificant de-
tails, says London Life, the absolute au-
thority and supervision of the old Ger
man Emperor are felt as regards anything
connected with military organization.
The Princess Imperial had embroidered
with her own hands flag, which was
to be presented in great pomp to the
veterans of the second regiment of Hus.
sars, of which she is the honorary COM
mander. At the last moment the cere-
mony was countermanded, and event.
ually postponed for a month, because
the Princess had embroidered two in.
itials and star on the flag without OBJ
tanning the authorization to do SO from
the Emperor, who alone can give il. The
future Empress Of Germany submitted
to the implied reproof without a MUIR
muir.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

An artist painting a portrait of M.
Pasteur from a photograph, wrote to the
scientist for further particulars" The
reply came: "Face, pale yellowish; eyes,
dark gray; grayish beard; hair scarcely
gray"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

Rev. W. Ell. Fl. Murray, generally
known as Adirondack Murray, has be-
come lyceum reader, and is making a
good income. He tells his former par
ishioners that his forte is rather to amuse
than to teach, and that, accordingly, he is
better suited to the platform than the
pulpit
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

Count Tolstoi, the Russian novel
list, was found by recent visitor clad
in PEASANTS garb and sweeping his
hearth. His shirt was soiled with mud
and SCOT, there was strap about his waist,
and his heavy boots we're coated with
clay. After breakfast the Count and bis
son went to help repair neighbours barn,
and worked all day at it. This rough
and ready character shows pride and in
dependence.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

= Ex-Vice-President Wheeler has
survived his parents, brothers, sisters,
and wife, and now lives alone at Malone,
childless and without a near relative in
the world. These bereavements have
saddened him, and his health is seriously
impaired, but not go as to PROSTATE or
confne him to the house.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

One of the curious condolences of
nomenclature is that the daughter of
General Logan married Mr.. Tucker,
while the daughter of Representative
Randolph Tucker married Mr.. Logan.
Each couple have son. The name OF
one is Tucker Logan and the other is Lo-
gan Tucker. The boys are about the
same age, but I am told they have never
seen each other. Something like this
occurred several years ago. Senators
Dorsey and Clayton, of Arkansas, had
sons born to them about the same date.
They were very intimate then and chris
tened their children accordingly, one be-
ing named Clayton Dorsey and the other
Dorsey Clayton. This was very nice, and
the boys were as loving as brothers.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

.,,,. 30 the old man sighed. with bonded head,
...'.i brilliant dreams 81 life have come ana led
,,... lave earned Tor fame, aioi DER ond Ger
l.. .iorplrss uI rhfs in searching burning lore,
t.ff.f. ia weary age. SIMPLY nnd
&. ,ly 'Dc is man OF brilliant mind.
.. ....rN road iu ph.losophic books.
I'D maihema.c'. win PTS Turns .nl crooks
-.I.n lIsea volume al unscal0i.
~. base. opened and its truths revealed
p .0s hc writes arc read by learned men,
.,..,at impatient while he Yields bis pen
0.ffh PSI. alas. no music has for me,
,r.n greater men on every hand I see
ot. ohf on knowledge ala waste my an,
f-.0.I ~ learning how 20 play baseball
Merchant Traveller.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
RAILROADS.
ARRIVE RICHMOND.

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5s6 pm.-MAIL daily except Sunday.
s:J5 am. ACCOMMODATION daily toNcepl
Sunday.
80 sm.-NlGHT EXPRESS daily (esccr
Monday.
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION bctwrer
Richmond and ScOttsyile leaves Rchm, ~.
$50 am arrives, returning. 7:i5 pm.
Express train connects AT LynVhburg Wit
train Tor stations west OF Balcony Fails.
CONNECTIONS.
Nos will run through on Saturday 10 Ma
utal bridge, stopping Ht all stations for uaA
arriving al Natural Bridge station nj li.tl pm
M. accommodation leaves Natural BriIs.
station VA MOnday al 2t0 am, ,tOppius ~ a
stations Tor nag. arriving al Richmond al o.,
an. clceplns-chr attached To tins Train. an.
vii be opeu Tor reception OF passengers
pm sunday.
AT CLIFTON Forge with Chesap,,aN e auo d..
auway Tor the south. West. ami Nurth~,sI
Al Lyuouburg with Norfolk and Wrestler
aliruad tor all pOints south, S0uthefrt. a.
southwest. and Virginia Midland uilwa, To-
40 puints North ana south.
Al Richmond With Associated Railway, o.
iu points an tht south, and Richmond, Frcd'
rlcksburg aud Potomac nillrUad Tor all pu Co.,.
North.
At Lexington with Baltimore and ONO o.
road, making close connections al Hdrpcf
Ferry t. and from fittsburg and the " -
also 10 pOlnts North and hast.
Sleeping car attached 10 NIGHT ENPlth~
for LynChhurg.
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Trans marked daily except sunday.
Tickets sold 20 an points Offices us o..
Main street, 1000 Main. and az kichmOu, ar
Allegheny depot, Eighth and Canal streets.
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hco benI Passenger ana Express Agent
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

ph ETett wbores.dcs between Mid
Hu .Hl Neu stanton, has as large ears
uu perhaps m the county They are
$500 Inches bong and of proporuonate di-
astfely other way Onem.ghi 100 first
lti ,l.h lhenomeuuly large ears
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assessing uo companafmg advantage Not
f.r Lv.t is a, good looking AS other
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